Fleeting Memories

Michael Ruby

POETRY

February 2008

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This steady drip of memories through the years, this slow accretion
Michael Ruby

Fleeting Memories is the first section of Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices, a trilogy documenting three “varieties of unconscious experience” that was published by Station Hill Press in 2012. The other two sections are Dreams of the 1990s (excerpt in Café Irreal #22 ) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (in Argoist Online). A recording of the opening of Fleeting Memories is archived at WFMU.

About the Author

Michael Ruby is the author of five full-length poetry books: At an Intersection (Alef, 2002), Window on the City (BlazeVOX, 2006), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX, 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010) and American Songbook (UDP, 2013). His trilogy, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill Press, 2012), includes Fleeting Memories, a UDP web-book. He is also the author of two chapbooks, The Star-Spangled Banner (Dusie, 2011) and Close Your Eyes (Dusie, 2013). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University’s writing program, he lives in Brooklyn and works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.

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Other UDP titles from Michael Ruby here

[Audio]

Michael Ruby reads “I’m On The Battlefield For My Lord,” “Johnny B. Goode,” and “Look At Little Sister” from American Songbook

[Video]

Michael Ruby performs “Fragments of The Star-Spangled Banner” with his niece, legendary rocker Abby Travis, against the backdrop of a video by Sam Truitt on April 10, 2021

Michael Ruby reads “Blue Skies” at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn on October 18, 2012

Michael Ruby reads “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “You Keep Me Hanging On” at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York on May 13, 2006

Michael Ruby reads three poems from The Star Spangled Banner at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York on May 13, 2006

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